There are new developments within the Young Dolph homicide case. One of the homicide suspects, Shundale Barnett, has reportedly been launched from jail.
According to a Fox13Memphis report, printed on Saturday (Jan. 21), Shundale Barnett bonded out of Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 24, 2022. He was then transferred to Clay County Jail in Henrietta, Texas, earlier than being formally launched on Jan. 21, 2023.
Shundale Barnett was arrested in reference to the homicide of Memphis rapper Young Dolph. The late rhymer was shot and killed outdoors of Makeda’s Homemade Cookies in November of 2021. Barnett was apprehended whereas sitting within the passenger seat of a automobile the accused shooter Justin Johnson was driving in at an Indiana gasoline station again in early January of 2022.
XXL has reached out to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office for remark.
Meanwhile, final Friday (Jan. 20), two different Young Dolph homicide suspects, Justin Johnson (aka Straight Dropp) and Cornelius Smith, appeared in Shelby County felony courtroom after a grand jury indicted each males on a conspiracy cost. According to a tweet by Fox13 journalist Jeremy Pierre, each males’s attorneys instructed Judge Lee Coffee they are going to enter a plea of not responsible.
Additionally, Johnson’s lawyer, Luke Evans, filed a movement to have Judge Coffee recuse himself from the case based mostly on claims that the choose isn’t being neutral. Evans mentioned that he wasn’t knowledgeable about Judge Coffee’s resolution to chop off Johnson’s telephone, writing, and visitation privileges. “He did so without granting Mr. Johnson a hearing, and it’s our position that that action shows some impartiality on behalf of the court,” Evans instructed WREG News Channel 3.
Judge Coffee reportedly instructed Evans that he issued the order after Johnson allegedly made a recording that was heard outdoors the jail the place he’s being held. The recording was allegedly a rap track purportedly known as “No Statements” made by Johnson and distributed by way of social media.
The legal professional’s movement for the choose’s removing will likely be heard on Feb. 2, along with an earlier movement for Johnson to be relocated to a different facility resulting from security considerations.
If convicted on the conspiracy prices, Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith might obtain a 15 to 60-yr jail sentence. Both Johnson and Smith will seem in courtroom collectively on March 24 for the fees associated to the Young Dolph homicide case.
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